AFAP manages the Australian-Pacific Centre for Emergency and Disaster Information (APCEDI) to provide news on natural disaster events in the Asia-Pacific region and to help with rapid disaster response assessment. This was originally a communications network that was activated during a disaster to disseminate information to our Asia-Pacific NGO offices. Now APCEDI has a much wider application across the Asia-Pacific Region.

Sunday, December 26, 2004

APCEDI ALERT EQ-SSEA #1, 2004: Series of Earthquakes and Tsunamis Devastate Wide Area of South and Southeast Asia

A series of powerful earthquakes, noted below, have occurred along the boundary of the Australian and Eurasian Plates from Northern Sumatra in the south to the North Andaman Islands in the north.

News on this major event is now dominating all news outlets on television, shortwave and internet.

APCEDI will continue to monitor this major situation. However, due the global scope of this disaster, major international attention will be on this situation, and people should stay posted to international and local media for updates.

APCEDI

APCEDI is a service of AFAP
- the Australian Foundation for the Peoples of Asia and the Pacific and FSPI
- the Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific International.

Disclaimer: This service provides indicative alert information
and should only be construed in conjunction with other sources of information
such as local and regional weather services. Reports are as accurate as possible,
but as the information is indicative, external confirmation should be sought.